Proton mobility in hydrated melanin as a function of temperature

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Electroceuticals is the attempt to “…speak the electrical language of the nerves to achieve higher treatment effect”. Thus, the search is on to develop devices to enhance personalised healthcare. Part of creating such devices is selecting materials that can interface between biology and computers. One such material is the skin pigment melanin since it is bio-compatible and sustains electrical current. Recently we obtained electrical measurements on melanin that showed that a major charge carrier, the proton, changes its conduction/mobility behaviour as a function of temperature and hydration. We wish to understand this change using quasi elastic neutron scattering, since it is excellent for probing proton dynamics. The key outcome is to extract proton dynamics (as a function of hydration and temperature) and then model the data. This may give insight into device design.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1910255-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/103214715
Provenance
Creator Dr Ian Silverwood; Dr JOSE MARTINEZ-GONZALEZ; Professor Paul Merdeith; Dr Bernard Mostert; Professor Boris Gorshunov; Mr Joao Paulin; Dr Hamish Cavaye; Dr Kostya Motovilov; Mr Paul Hughes; Dr Jan Goeran Gluschke
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Biology; Biomaterials; Chemistry; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-06-17T08:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-07-10T10:35:14Z